Precision Pest Control serves Yuma across its agricultural ground and its seasonal communities, from the fields along the Gila and Colorado bottoms to the RV resorts and park model communities that fill each winter. This city runs on a winter calendar, and the pest work does too.


Yuma is one of the most productive winter vegetable regions in the country and the pest picture follows the fields. Irrigation supports mosquitoes, field mice, pocket gophers and heavy fly populations near packing and livestock operations. The river bottoms add pack rats, mosquitoes and snakes. On the residential and seasonal side we see cockroaches, bark scorpions, black widows, and the mice that get under skirting on park model and manufactured homes. Termites work steadily in soil that stays irrigated much of the year.
Yuma runs opposite to most of the country. The fields are in full production through winter, the population roughly doubles with seasonal residents at the same time, and that means peak agricultural pest pressure and peak occupancy land in the same months. We staff and schedule around that rather than around a standard calendar. For the RV resorts and park model communities, service concentrates from late fall through spring, with a closing inspection when a resident leaves for the summer and an opening one when they return, which catches problems before five unattended months turn them into serious ones.
Flood irrigation is the other constant. Fields and even many residential lots here take irrigation water, and every time that happens the soil saturates and the insects living in it move toward drier ground. Timing exterior treatment on the right side of that cycle changes the result substantially. On manufactured and park model homes, the skirted crawl space is the single most important area to inspect and seal, since it stays cooler and more humid than the surrounding ground and becomes harborage for rodents, scorpions and widows.


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See at Pest World!